Dennis Gruenling came up with the ideas of scale degree charts many years ago and his idea has gone out into the world and many other people have created variations of the idea and below you will see a system I have created to combine note layouts that you can
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Why Music Theory is so Confusing If you want to make any progress with music theory, you have to have a rock solid mental model of the major scale and what it sounds like to move around in it. This seems obvious to me now, but it took decades for
February 15, 2021 What do breath and thought have in common? I find this question fascinating because it focuses on the mysterious ways we can find and use our greatest powers. Breath and thought both run in the background all the time, and some magnificent intelligence controls them so you
Written January 13th, 2021 “The key word for our time is practice. We have all the light we need; we just need to put it into practice.” – Peace Pilgrim I hope you have been able to find time to devote to music. I know it has been critical to
Here are a couple of videos on ways to make”Jingle Bells” a fun blues harp solo machine… This tune just popped into my head after listening to a lot of Django Reinhart and Stephan Grappelli recordings. Jeez, I wish they had recorded a version of this tune so I could
The way you breathe, keep time, and hold your body will make you or break you as a harmonica player. The harmonica is the box of reeds. The resonator, the bellows and the metronome are all built into one amazing instrument: your body. You can customize harmonicas to be louder
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